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Björn Heile
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Berlin-born and Glasgow-based academic, primarily interested in weird music. Oh, and I'm associate editor of Contemporary Music Review.
Professional profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/bjornheile
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Wee walk in #ArdgartanForest.
Tree branch so overgrown with moss and lichen it seems to be glowing in green. Croe water with trees with autumn leaves. A group of trees overgrown with lichen, so they look like ghosts in a field of brown, dead bracken. Loch Long, seen from Ardgarten Forest, with some trees in the foreground and a hill in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I took this yesterday morning on the train journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh. I was too slow to catch the best moment, so this will have to do.
The morning sun shining on the mist in the glen.
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Erik Palmberg, Merchants House, Glasgow. #LiveJazz
Palmberg playing Flügelhorn Quartet playing.
November 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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It may not surprise you that I visited the distillery a while back. I was also positively surprised. I had observed the distillery being built and opened (it's not far from where I live), and it looked more like a tourist attraction, but it's indeed good stuff.
Clydeside distillery from the outside, at night, 2018 Clydeside distillery from the inside, 2023
October 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Coach house, Belmont Lane, #WestEnd, #Glasgow.
October 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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That's exactly what I thought! And here's the evidence. Uncanny.
Steve Bell's caricature of Tony Blair
October 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Beautiful day with morning mist.
Autumnal colours in the sunshine with mist at the shores of Loch Long. Ardmay and the Arrochar torpedo pier in the morning mist on Loch Long. Morning mist with sunshine on autumnal colours across Loch Long. Loch Long in its full blueness.
October 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Autumnal colours
Colourful leaves on group of trees near the shoreline of Loch Long
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Curlew
Curlew wading in Loch Long Curlew wading in Loch Long Curlew wading in Loch Long
October 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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It was foggy this morning...
The torpedo pier in Loch Long in the fog, seen from Arrochar. The Arrochar Alps with a band of fog in front, seen from Arrochar. The torpedo pier in lifting fog. Ardmay and the torpedo pier in Loch Long seen from Arrochar, with dissolving remnants of fog.
September 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Remnants of summer...
Somewhat tattered Red Admiral butterfly on a potted garden flower.
September 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Another misty morning. #LochLong #Arrochar
Mist envelopes the torpedo pier near Arrochar.
September 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The weather wasn't particularly nice this morning but photogenic. #Arrochar #LochLong #ScottishHighlands
A ray of sunshine among dark clouds illuminates the forest on the opposite shore of Loch Long, seen from Arrochar. A rainbow and a ray of sunshine among dark and wispy clouds in the Arrochar Alps. A rainbow over the Arrochar Alps
September 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Mist over the #ArrocharAlps.
Loch Long seen from Arrochar, with morning mist.
September 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Note to self - no-one on here of course! 😜
Bart Simpson's blackboard: 'I will not get into arguments with idiots on social media'.
September 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Distinctly autumnal.
The head of Loch Long seen from Arrochar. A ray of sunshine among the clouds lighting up the shore opposite.
August 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Reopening celebrations of the #Citz Theatre in #Glasgow.
Foyer, with the auditorium to the left, stairs on the right and skylights above. People milling about. The fly tower with original wooden machinery from the late 19th century (apparently, the last existing one in the UK). The stage, lit in colourful light, seen from the circle. People streaming out of the auditorium
August 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Walk from #Rowardennan to #Inversnaid on the #WestHighlandWay, along #LochLomond.
Calm waters under a cloudy sky at a beach on Loch Lomond. Tree branches framing a view of Loch Lomond, looking south, into the misty distance. The waterfall at Inversnaid. Inveruglas with Ben Vorlich and Ben Vane.
August 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Good morning!
Sunny morning on Loch Long at Arrochar. A sailing boat and the hills mirrored in the water.
August 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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The house opposite is pigeon central. No idea why, but I like it.
Glasgow red sand stone tenement, with pigeons on all ledges.
August 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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As luck would have it, another post in my timeline suggests that this would be an opportune moment. Not that Starmer is likely to grasp it, though.
August 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Some buildings and monuments on #Orkney.
Broch of Gurness Blacksmithery in St Margaret's Hope Ring of Brodgar Kirkwall cathedral
August 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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I made even more #landscape pics on #Orkney. Here are four.
The cliffs along the west coast on the mainland of Orkney. Hoy in the background. A barley field in the wind, with a wind turbine in the distance. Blooming thistles along a wooden fence. The stretch of water between the mainland of Orkney and Hoy (does it have a name?), with the Hoy High Lighthouse (confusingly on Gramsay) in the distance.
August 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I made hundreds of pictures of #birds on #Orkney. Hard to choose, but here are four.
Great Skua in flight over water. Gannet in flight in front of a cloudy sky. Fulmar coming in to land, in front of a grey sky. A group of four sanderlings on the beach at Skaill Bay, Orkney.
August 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Pictures from Orkney and the Flow Country.
Peat bog and a snow fence under a cloudy sky, taken on a telephone from the train. The Flow Country under a cloudy sky, taken on a phone from the train. Scapa Beach under a cloudy sky.
August 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM